On The Financial FrontierDIS Magazine | Submitted by: ditchley
"On Monday, October 10th something strange happened in the world of high finance: Goldman Sachs lost its crown. The news, despite trumpeting a major new player in the world of HFT, or high-frequency trading, got no coverage at all from popular media outlets, yet for anyone with an interest in our fragile economy, the development would have been noteworthy: a new, unheard of company listed as Latour Trading LLC had surpassed Goldman Sachs as the most active trader on the New York Stock Exchange... When I clicked on the homepage, my browser window went white. I tried reloading it -- still nothing. Itís a strange feeling, loading a blank web page; it doesnít happen very often. So I checked the source code of the site. In its entirety it read: <HTML></HTML>

Wilkommen Police-StadtHuffington Post | Submitted by: Bort
"America's police departments have been moving toward more aggressive, force-first, militaristic tactics and their accompanying mindset for 30 years. It's just that, with the exception of protests at the occasional free trade or World Bank summit, the tactics haven't generally been used on mostly white, mostly college-educated kids armed with cellphone cameras and a media platform."

GIs Honored With Ash Heap DisposalBBC | Submitted by: itchley
"Incinerated partial remains of at least 274 troops were reportedly dumped at landfills between 2004-08 by the largest military mortuary in the US... Since the landfill dumping ended three years ago, such cremated partial remains are now buried at sea... It emerged that a dead soldier's ankle had been lost and a damaged arm bone was sawed off a dead Marine before burial so he could fit in his uniform and coffin."

French Nuclear Reactors Easily PenetratedAl Jazeera | Submitted by: Soylent
"Greenpeace activists secretly entered a French nuclear site before dawn and draped a banner reading Coucou and Facile, (meaning Hey and Easy) on its reactor containment building, to expose the vulnerability of atomic sites in the country... French power company Electricite de France (EDF), which operates the site, denounced the "illegal" break-in at Nogent-sur-Seine and insisted that it did not harm security at the site."

Kentucky Church Bans Interracial CouplesThe New Civil Rights Movement | Submitted by: miscegenatrix
"Parties of such marriages will not be received as members, nor will they be used in worship services and other church functions, with the exception being funerals. All are welcome to our public worship services. This recommendation is not intended to judge the salvation of anyone, but is intended to promote greater unity among the church body and the community we serve."

Overgrow the World's Insidious PlanToke of the Town | Submitted by: st0ne
"Overgrow The World has the same goal as most of us: Full re-legalization of cannabis/hemp for all farmers and responsible adults around the world. But OTW plans to achieve this goal through a unique method: planting marijuana in public, highly visible places... Quietly planting a seed and walking away isn't exactly what even the most perverse media or politician can twist into a violent act which must be stamped out."

Tattoo Is A Steaming PileSun | Submitted by: The Drifter
"Rossie wanted a scene from the Narnia trilogy inked on her back... Instead she was left with a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it... He tricked me by drinking a bottle of cheap wine with me and doing tequila shots before I signed it and got the tattoo." Nice theory, but potentially debunked by The Smoking Gun, 2nd link.

Burp In Class, Go Directly To JailSanta Maria Times | Submitted by: LJ
"The boy was transported [to Juvie] without his parents being notified in May after he burped audibly in PE class and his teacher called a school resource officer to complain he was disrupting her class. The lawsuit also details a separate Nov. 8 incident when the same student was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched as he was accused of selling pot to another student; the boy was never charged."